Eliza stared at the laptop screen, her jaw clenched tight. Her knuckles were white from gripping the edge of the desk. Every entry, every confession, every embarrassing detail of her teenage life, now available for the entire world to read. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, a stinging pressure that threatened to spill over. She closed her eyes, took a deep, shaky breath, and then opened them again. The words on the screen hadn't changed.

Emotion: exasperated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.99 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion exasperated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 exasperated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the exasperated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the exasperated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.435
l0.378
P0.331
que0.320
la0.269
Suppressed:
own-0.433
gradually-0.254
soon-0.248
unfolding-0.216
joyful-0.216